Video to GIF Converter

How to Turn a Video Into a GIF

1. Drop your MP4, MOV or WebM into the box above, or tap it to pick a video from your phone.
2. Drag the two handles to the start and end of the part you want, and press Play the selected part to check it.
3. Pick a width, frame rate and speed. Crop to a square or 9:16, reverse it, or add a caption if you like.
4. Click Make GIF, then download or share it.

Need a clip to start from? Our free b-roll library has 150+ short videos you can download and use.

Make a GIF for Discord

Discord has a different limit for each place a GIF can go. Tap Emoji or Sticker in the converter and it makes the right shape, then keeps shrinking the GIF until it fits. Limits from Discord's help pages, checked November 3, 2026:

Anyone can add animated emoji to a server, but using them takes Nitro or Nitro Basic, and so does an animated profile picture. For every other Discord limit, from server boosts to soundboard sounds, see Discord's file size limits.

Best GIF Settings: Width, Frame Rate and Length

Why not 60 fps? A GIF stores each frame's delay in hundredths of a second, and browsers slow any delay under 2 hundredths (20 milliseconds) right down. That makes 50 fps the real maximum, and a GIF made at 60 fps plays slower than the video. The converter caps the frame rate for you, including when you speed a clip up.

Why not 4K? A GIF has no video compression, so a 4K GIF of a few seconds can run to hundreds of megabytes, and nowhere shows it at that size anyway. 480 to 800 pixels wide looks sharp in chats and on web pages.

Why GIFs Are So Big, and How to Shrink Yours

Video formats like MP4 only store what changes between frames, and they use millions of colors. A GIF can use only 256 colors per frame and was designed in the 1980s. That makes GIFs 5 to 10 times bigger than the same clip as an MP4.

This converter keeps them as small as a GIF can be:

• One set of colors is picked for the whole clip, so the colors don't flicker between frames.
• Pixels that don't change from one frame to the next aren't stored again, which makes still backgrounds, screen recordings and talking heads much smaller.
• Frames that are exactly the same are merged into one longer frame.

If yours is still too big, lower the settings in this order: width first (halving it makes the GIF about a quarter of the size), then the frame rate, then the colors, then pick a shorter part. Or let the converter do it: tap Make it fit next to a size limit under your GIF.

Make a GIF From an iPhone or Android Video

The converter works in your phone's browser, so there's nothing to install. Tap the box and choose a video from your photos or gallery, then save the GIF or send it straight to a chat with Share.

iPhones record in HEVC (High Efficiency) by default. Safari plays HEVC on every iPhone, iPad and Mac, but Chrome and Firefox only do on some devices. If a video won't open, use Safari, or before you record set your iPhone's Camera > Formats to Most Compatible, which saves H.264 videos that open everywhere. Phone videos are big, so start at 320 or 480 pixels wide.

GIF vs WebP vs MP4

• GIF plays and loops everywhere with no play button: chats, emoji, stickers, emails, forums and docs. That's why it's still the default for short loops.
• Animated WebP is often smaller with more colors, but some apps and emails still don't play it.
• MP4 is far smaller and sharper for anything longer than a few seconds. Many sites that show "GIFs" actually play MP4s. To work out how big a video will be, use the video file size calculator.

Is My Video Uploaded?

No. The video is read, cut into frames and turned into a GIF inside your browser, so it never leaves your device. That's also why there's no upload wait and no file size limit beyond what your device can handle. There's no watermark and no sign-up.